Week 3 Activity 2 – Create and Comment on Educational Graphics

I created a graphic to use in my Grade 10 Math class to help with the learning objective: Continuation of a sequence of patterns and the determination of the general term. Many students were easily able to identify patterns for triangular and square numbers but had difficult when it came to these “Stellar numbers”. I tried to keep the selection of important information minimal and prominent and organize the graphic to help develop understanding of the underlying patterns. Some of the actions and tools I used were the simple color scheme of two colors to clearly identify the parts I was trying to highlight. After creating the graphic, I was unsure of the color choice as the cyan font is a little difficult to see.

3 Replies to “Week 3 Activity 2 – Create and Comment on Educational Graphics”

  1. Kaz,
    I like how you matched the colours up in the equations to the triangles they represent in the triangles, it definitely allowed me to link items together easily. I may have done the small triangle equation on its own and then done a second equation multiplying it by 3 as I often find my students do not see that as obvious.
    Really like it though.
    Abbi

  2. Hi Abbi,

    Good idea. I think showing the equation for a single small triangle and then summing 3 of them plus the large triangle in a separate equation may be better organized. Thanks for the feedback!

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